Surprised no one mentioned this actually. For those not familiar it's a shooter located on the site of the accident where the disaster produced various mutant monsters and an unstable environment. Really immersive with the difficulty, story and ambience. Haven't seen the movie it was based on.
Or the soviet era Andrei Tarkovsky movie Stalker based on the novel Roadside Picnic by the brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (who also wrote the screenplay)?
The later is unrelated to the Chernobyl accident (in any direct sense) as it concerns unfathomable alien technology left as waste on earth after a visitation (or alien picnic along a galactic roadside) with human 'stalkers' raiding the unknown like ants after sugar.
Also had this problem, tried to create exe packages on windows and had endless trouble (although windows apps aren't my expertise). The real killer in the end for me was some windows security feature that would start killing the process, not immediately, but after a couple of startups. It was an internal tool so in the end I used an executable batch script to start the program, that seemed to bypass the problem, but when it came time to add features and make things available for a wider audience I just abandoned the windows gui and moved to a web app.
I would also add that even the odd writer with a great early book or books commonly slumps down to meh and then churns it out from there on, which is sad.
It's like the fiction publishing industry had this technology for 10-20 years already.
>This will make PLB (personal location beacons) redundant
Wouldn't this make the subscription satellite communications devices like inreach redundant, rather than PLBs? A safety conscious person in the wilds would probably still want a dedicated emergency device (?), only now it has another possible communication method to make it even more reliable.
PLBs as I understand it are designed specifically to be one-shot foolproof devices with no secondary comms, with guaranteed battery lives (15 years I think), robust cases etc. that just sit there until you press the 'Save me' button. A phone (or inreach which is closer but still has messaging etc.) is not a real replacement for that functionality as I see it. Mainly because the other things you use it for mean it can run out of batteries or whatever.
You are bang on about having a redundant PLB seperate from other comms channels.
I carry a PLB and an InReach when I am in remote areas. Partly because I’m often by myself but also InReach does go down sometimes and I’d prefer to have a dedicated reliable channel to search and rescue that I can just leave I my bag and forget about except replacing every 10 years!
> dual-wield and use a Linux or de-googled android phone for daily use and keep a second device around for the apps that won't run there
I was thinking about this but what happens with on-the-spot payments? This seems like a functionality that's really convenient (not having to carry a bank card) but that would be on the official device, not the daily use device due to security issues. But paying for stuff in person is a daily use activity.
So here is a piece of anecdata for those interested in comparisons to vscode, I saw this hn post and installed the jupyter desktop app, and set up my current play project on it (sicp exercises in jupyter, I'd previously been using the browser). I also set up the same thing in vscode.
For this example I couldn't get vscode to perform correctly (maybe possible but not obvious), while the desktop app worked as advertised.
Vscode mistakenly labelled the cells of my scheme notebook as python, while correctly running the scheme kernel. The result was that I could run my cells and get the right output, but entering code was annoying as the auto indenting and error markers were based on python instead of scheme.
Anyway, unless I can fix the vscode weirdness, score one for the desktop app, I will keep using it.
There are good cover letters and then there are cover letters that are a waste of time. From what I can tell, this tool generates mostly the latter. It's basically just reformatting the resume and job description, producing an inferior version of both.
A good cover letter
- reveals some of the personality of the applicant (I once had a software engineer describe themselves as caring and thoughtful -- that was a nice touch to complement their resume which lists technical achievements)
- gives the recruiting team a sense of passions, priorities, and style of cooperation (again, beyond the technical which is on the resume)
- lets the organisation know a little about the reason for switching jobs.
Of course, it says nothing about whether the applicant is any good at the job, but it can give a sense of whether this person is someone the team would enjoy hanging out and working with every day. I haven't verified it empirically, but I believe cover letters have been signalful for me in the past.
The reason I said "mostly" a waste of time, is I didn't want to rule out the possibility of swaying an employer with some special reasons or explanation of how you could be a good fit that wasn't covered by the usual bare facts in the resume.
But to me that always seemed like a rare exception, they would have to pay attention and I would have to have something special to say. The great majority of cover letters I have written were because it was required by the process. Honestly this tool would probably be useful for that sort of fluff, so good on them for making it, but better to just have cover letters as a special case than the rule I think.
Majority of cover letters are made following some regular rules. Based on that there are similarly functioning (put some info; get result) sites that could produce cover letters without utilizing an AI.
Surprised no one mentioned this actually. For those not familiar it's a shooter located on the site of the accident where the disaster produced various mutant monsters and an unstable environment. Really immersive with the difficulty, story and ambience. Haven't seen the movie it was based on.